Maya Angelou Quote Quotes & Sayings

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard. — Maya Angelou

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility. — Bill Hader

It doesn't take a big, brave man to kill another. — David Dingle

Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily — Maya Angelou

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results. — Cindy Gallop

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time. — Maya Angelou

You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time. It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it. — Oprah Winfrey

Someday, someone out there will see you for the girl you really are. Someday, you'll find someone who understands you. — Marie Lu

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs. — Kamila Shamsie